History Characters / TheLifeAndSufferingOfSirBrante

** Should you side with the rebels, you MUST overthrow AND kill her to take over leadership of the rebels. Taking over by inducing a HeelRealization in her will NOT suffice, since you will still lack enough support from the Clergy and/or Nobles to achieve the peaceful resolution, forcing you to still engage in battle with the Legion.

** The first is striking his Gregor for burning his toy soldiers and then getting such a severe beating it kills him.

* ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections: When Stephan and Nathan are jailed for a minor offense, one way Sir Brante can resolve this is by asking Robert to get them out. Robert does, but Robert is ''not'' happy about this.

* TranquilFury: Stephan reacts this way in Chapter 4 if you refuse to cooperate in his plot to pressure Gloria into an ArrangedMarriage. He sits quietly, [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLiketheOthers squeezes a drinking glass in his hand until it shatters]], disinterestedly looks at the blood, and expresses quiet disappointment in your inability to see eye-to-eye on this.

* TheButcher: If he stays Gloria's loyal lieutenant to the end without convincing her to change, Sir Brante will become known as the Butcher of Anizotte, a revolutionary so ruthless and bloodthirsty that even his birth name became forgotten.

* AssholeVictim: Regardless of how little importance he had in the player's chosen path, if the Revolt happens, he survives and the Rebels win, the epilogue happily informs you that he is later [[ColdBloodedTorture tortured until he breaks]], [[KickTheSonOfABitch for your pleasure]].

* APupilOfMineUntilHeTurnedToEvil: Father Mark taught Patriarch Cassius to [[NayTheist reject the Twins]]. Instead of turning to secularism, Mark believes that Cassius instead seeks to [[AGodIAm deify himself]] in place of his old gods. This leads to Mark having little to no hesitation in giving much needed incriminating evidence against Cassius that can prove instrumental to turning his flock against him.

* AGodIAm: Father Mark claims that Cassius wants to replace the Twins as the god of this world.

[[folder: In General]]

* [[NeutralNoLonger Neutral No Longer]]: The Brantes spend the years before the Revolt staying out of trouble and preoccupying themselves with their private ambitions and [[FamilyDrama Family Drama]]. When the Revolt comes, however, Sir Brante can convince his family to pick a side and openly fight for freedom (as rebels) or order (as defenders of the Empire).
* [[RagstoRiches Rags to Riches]]: Though not exactly "rags", the Brantes start pretty low on the Imperial social ladder, with half of the family born into the lowest caste. Possible goals of Sir Brante include making his family wealthy and/or respectful among nobles, obtain a hereditary nobility or even become close advisors of the Overseer.

* [[TheAce The Ace]]: It is possible to make Sir Brante a person who is very good in one or several areas of expertise, e.g. a swordsman so skilled he can fight off multiple opponents and also happens to be a charismatic public speaker and a devious political schemer.
* AHeroToHisHometown: If Sir Brante sides with the rebellion but then betrays it by opening the gates to the Imperial Legion then at least initally the wider Arknian Empire remembers him as an [[RewardedAsATraitorDeserves insurgent who tried unsuccessfully to be on the winning side]]. In the city of Anizotte, however, he's remembered by the majority as the man who saved them from a [[TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized revolutionary]] [[ReignOfTerror bloodbath]].

* [[AntiHero Anti-Hero]]: Sir Brante can be played as someone who means well but uses shady methods to achieve his ends, or as someone [[AntiVillain who does evil for good reasons]] (e.g. fear for his family's safety).

* [[BadassPreacher Badass Preacher]]: As a priest, Sir Brante can be this, especially if he follows New Faith. Stopping crazy mobs dead in their tracks, hunting down violent mages, defending his home from looters and leading the whole damn Revolt against an Imperial Legion, you name it.
* [[BecameTheirOwnAntithesis Became Their Own Antithesis]]: The Lotless Sir Brante can betray the cause of revolution in the adulthood and serve the Empire he once opposed.

* [[FromNobodytoNightmare From Nobody to Nightmare]]: Sir Brante starts his life as a mere human commoner, one among many. Over the course of the game, he has several options to grow into something powerful and dreaded. Examples include:

* [[HopeBringer Hope Bringer]]: If Sir Brante leads the Revolt to victory, he becomes this to the rest of the Empire.

* [[ProtagonistJourneyToVillain Protagonist Journey to Villain]]: It is possible for Sir Brante's life to become this if he makes enough bad choices.

* [[RagstoRiches Rags to Riches]]: Sir Brante is born into a lowly Lot, but the "best" endings for Sir Brante who stays loyal to the Empire usually involve his ascension to the top of his respective career.

* [[ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right]]: Sir Brante in a position of power has several options to forsake his duties in order to save or protect someone.

* [[WhatYouAreInTheDark What You Are in the Dark]]: Several important choices can be made when Sir Brante is alone, no one can influence his decision, and a selfish option is more beneficial (or at least, costs him less).
** The scene where [[TrueCompanions Tommas]] is cornered by assassins and begs you for help. Saving his life drains your [[HeroicResolve Heroic Resolve]], costs you a bit of Reputation and a lesser death. Letting him die costs you nothing and replenishes your resolve.
** A literal example can happen in the Noble path, as the scene in question takes place in the middle of the night. As [[AristocratsareEvil Remy El Verman]] reveals his gambit to murder [[CrusadingLawyer El Borne]], you can either rush to warn the latter or do nothing and go home. If you choose to save El Borne, not only do you have to confess your wrongdoings to him, you also have to die at the hands of the assassins. Being a coward, on the other hand, costs you nothing and imediately ends the chapter (albeit in a very dark way).

* DoubleConsciousness: The source of his conflict with his family is that he is torn between being the man Gregor taught him to be and being honest about how much he truly cares for Lydia and Gloria despite them being commoners. While he's more openly affectionate towards Lydia who he considers to be his mother, all his cruel actions towards Gloria are legitamtely him trying to find ways to have her be happy without sacrificing everything Gregor taught him. Ultimately however he can only find happiness once Sir Brante helps him either accept Gloria or attaining his goals at the cost of his relationship with Gloria, with the other paths either resulting in him leaving the family forever or being killed.

* [[TheHeart The Heart]]: Shares this role with Lydia. Being close with Nathan helps to increase family unity, and he can come off as a voice of humble reason in familial arguments.
* [[HeartIsAnAwesomePower Heart Is an Awesome Power]]: Nathan is meek, slow, constantly drunk and depressed and has no valuable skills or qualities. He is also sincerely humble and deeply empathetic, which potentially allows him to connect to the Twins Themselves and change the very nature of Divine Law. To put it simply, the most unassuming member of the Brante family can make the biggest posssible change in the world for centuries.

* [[HeadintheSandManagement Head-in-the-Sand-Management]]: How he deals with family turmoil in chapter IV. He is too loving a father to get Gloria out of the house, but he is also too beholden to the idea of ennoblement, which can't be obtained with Gloria IN the house. For several years, Robert doesn't do anything about it, losing himself in work and leaving it for his sons to solve the problem. He only makes his choice when Sir Brante does.

* [[NeutralityBacklash Neutrality Backlash]]: When the Revolt comes, Robert's first instinct is to stay home and only protect his family. If he does, or if the family runs from Anizotte, not only does his social standing falter compared to if he fought for the winning side, Robert himself comes to regret his cowardice, feeling it prevented him from making a mark on history.

* [[TookALevelInBadass Took A Level In Badass]]: Robert spends the majority of the game as a quiet civil servant and even a bit of a coward. On the day of the Revolt, however, not only can he fight fearlessly to protect his home and family from looters, he can also forsake neutrality and fight with or against the rebels.

* [[WhatTheHellHero What the Hell, Hero?]]: If noble Sir Brante obeys the [[SecretPolice Secret Chancellery]] and fabricates cases against potential mutiness, Robert is horrified that his son sent people to the gallows without a trial or evidence. During Night of the Serpents, Robert is both horrified and dissapointed that his son allied with the likes of Remy El Verman and bought his family's safety by throwing other people under the bus.

* LackOfEmpathy: He shows an almost complete disregard for the feelings of other people.

* [[VillainHasaPoint Villain Has a Point]]:
** While he expresses it as dickishly as possible, Gregor is not entirely wrong in that Robert's decision to accept a commoner woman with a bastard child into his house and his [[HeadintheSandManagement years-long refusal to resolve the question about said bastard's future in the family one way or another]] have hurt the Brantes in more ways than one.

* [[DidntThinkThisThrough Didn't Think This Through]]: El Borne's way to tackle the Otton case is somewhat clumsy. He wants to make charges against a powerful Arknian and pass judgement on him, fair enough. However, he asks a novice judge ([[PlayerCharacter Sir Brante]]), who may not even support his fight for justice, to do all the work and does not provide any resources or powerful allies for Brante to stand against Otton's wrath. After this, El Borne is content to just sit around for three years and wait for Sir Brante to produce a solution. When Otton threatens to assault the Prefecture unless his case is dropped immediately, El Borne has no countermeasures and simply begs for Sir Brante to do something.

[[folder: Sir Tibor]]

[[folder: Archduke Tarquinius Milanidas]]

[[folder: Octavia Milanidas]]

* [[WomanScorned Woman Scorned]]: If Sir Brante refuses to oblige Octavia's intimate desires, she holds a grudge against him and tries to ruin his reputation at the noble gathering later.

[[folder: Archduke Aegerius Monrogue]]

[[folder: Dorius Otton]]

* [[InsaneTrollLogic Insane Troll Logic]]: Otton's behaviour if he gets dishonorably discharged in the Court of Honor is this. He proclaims that the Court, a sacred mystical duel between two Arknians and their Blood Tides, was somehow "rigged" by Sir Brante, a mere human judge. Thus it "does not count" and he can stay in charge. His argument boils down to "a noble tradition doesn't mean squat for true nobles". Justified in that Otton really doesn't give a crap about traditions and honor; he is just talking out of his ass to stay in power.

[[folder: Remy El Verman]]

* [[AristocratsareEvil Aristocrats are Evil]]: Even if you support the Empire or the noble estate as a whole, you are unlikely to find Remy sympathetic or pleasant to work with. He's a smug, duplicious asshole, cruel and condescending to those beneath him and ready to betray even his closest allies the moment they stop being of use to him.

* [[ButtMonkey Butt-Monkey]]: Out of all "villainous" characters, he is the most prone to turn into this trope. If Sir Brante makes certain choices, nothing ever works for Remy, he never gets what he wants, he is always outsmarted and betrayed, and he dies an undignified death right before the big climax. Amusingly, while most other Imperials at least have one or two "scripted" victories, El Verman can fail in every single goal he has.

* [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption Failure Is the Only Option]]: No matter what you do or how the story goes, Remy can't survive the eve of the Revolt. Even if he has Sir Brante as an ally and his plans work, he still dies a bloody death from the hands of the rebels.

* VigilanteExecution: He's killed by rebels at the very start of the revolt.

[[folder: Alan El Corvio]]

* SmallRoleBigImpact: In the Noble path especially. His duel with El Este, one among many, can provoke a permanent ban on the [[TrialbyCombat Court of Honor]] in Magra, putting an end to the centuries-old tradition.

[[folder: Felipe El Ferro]]

* [[DidntThinkThisThrough Didn't Think This Through]]: While El Ferro's [[FalseFlagOperation masterplan]] is pretty smart, it has one glaring weakness: its success depends on complete loyalty of two people (three if Sir Brante is forced into Felipe's service). One of those people is a vengeful murderous sorceress, the other one is an avaricious sociopath who has no compunctions against selling his boss out for profit, and [[PlayerCharacter the third one]] initially obeys only out of fear. As [[AgentProvocateur Agents Provocateurs]], all three have to operate with certain autonomy, which gives them multiple opportunities to betray Felipe and ruin his plan. Needless to say, in all paths but one the whole operation crushes and burns, and El Ferro very likely ends up dead.

* TheHandler: For Sophia and a Commoner Sir Brante, against their will. In one ending, he is upgraded to the [[TheSpymaster Spymaster]].

* KarmicDeath: If Sir Brante decides to conspire with Sophia, after forcing the two of them to help him instigate a revolt that he can easily put down to further his own ends, he is betrayed and murdered on the eve of the rebellion.

* [[SmugSnake Smug Snake]]: Can become this if Sir Brante proves to be both disloyal and cunning enough. Felipe acts as if he's in control all the time, confident that his pawns are under his thumb and can't betray him with any hope for success. In the meantime, said pawns inspire and organize a well-supplied and disciplined group of rebels fully capable of taking a major city by force. Yet, even after this plot is discovered, Felipe is so arrogant that he tries to act as if he's invincible right till he is beaten to a bloody pulp and shot by a firing squad.

[[folder: Jose El Peletier]]

* [[BabiesEverAfter Babies Ever After]]: If Gloria is married to him and keeps in touch with the Brantes, she and Jose raise a son together.
* [[GracefulLoser Graceful Loser]]: If noble Sir Brante beats him in a fencing tournament and later boasts about his victory, Jose takes this defeat in stride and confirms his opponent's valor and skill.
* [[HappilyMarried Happily Married]]: What he hopes for with Gloria. How successful their marriage is depends on whether or not the Brantes maintain familial ties with El Peletiers.
* [[HonorRelatedAbuse Honor-Related Abuse]]: If Gloria is married off but does not keep in touch with the Brantes, she tries to run away. El Peletier takes this attempt as an insult to his honor and becomes a full-blown jailer for his wife. We are not given any details, but his abuse takes Gloria to an early grave from depression.
* [[NiceGuy Nice Guy]]: Aside from a drop of chauvinism (understandable, given the world he lives in), and one optional example of [[HonorRelatedAbuse Honor-Related Abuse]] detailed above, Jose seems like a better guy than most nobles in the game. He doesn't act like an arrogant jerk, admires Gloria's rebellious fashion sense and passion for poetry and makes it clear that he wants to make Gloria's life as happy and comfortable as possible. His love is called outright "selfless" in the epilogue.
* [[SmallRoleBigImpact Small Role Big Impact]]: He barely appears in the game, but his romantic interest in Gloria affects the Brantes greatly.
* [[StayintheKitchen Stay in the Kitchen]]: How he sees a happy marriage, and the reason why Gloria doesn't like him at first. While he is ready to oblige Gloria's every desire and let her pursue her passions, he still wants a [[HouseWife Housewife]], a homemaker for his manor and a mother for his heirs. The main question of his plotline is whether Gloria can ever become content with such fate.
* [[WeHardlyKnewYe We Hardly Knew Ye]]: The maximum amount of scenes Jose can appear in? Four, one of them with no dialogue. Aside from his general "polite noble" attitude and his infatuation with Gloria, we know nothing about him.

[[folder: Uther II Tempest]]

* [[DroppedaBridgeonHim Dropped a Bridge on Him]]: If the rebels defeat his Legion in battle, or if neither side wins in the Revolt, Uther II is abruptly killed in his palace by an unknown party.
* [[TheEmperor The Emperor]]: The last monarch in a long, long line.
* [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes Even Evil Has Loved Ones]]: Though he does not hesitate to drown any rebellion against him in blood, if Sir Brante captures Gaius Tempest in battle, Uther is not ready to sacrifice his brother and agrees to negotiate.
* [[WeHardlyKnewYe We Hardly Knew Ye]]: He is so far removed from the main plotlines of the game that virtually everything about him is unknown, except for his title.

[[folder: Gaius Tempest]]

* [[RankScalesWithAsskicking Rank Scales with Asskicking]]: Gaius is one of supreme rulers of Magra, not to mention the member of the Imperial family, and a very skillful combatant. If you help him summon [[BloodKnight Dorius Otton]] to the [[TrialbyCombat Court of Honor]], Gaius defeats his enemy in what seems like minutes. During the Revolt, if rebel Sir Brante chooses to defeat an Imperial Legion in battle, Tempest personally leads the last desperate attack on city walls and slays quite a few rebels with his sword before being outnumbered and captured.

[[folder: Jeanne]]

* JeanneDArchetype: It's in the [[MeaningfulName name]]. She is a deeply devout and well-intentioned blonde woman of humble origin who takes up arms to defend her faith, potentially sacrificing herself in the process. It is also [[InvertedTrope inverted]] however, as instead of leading the Rebels, she is a defender of the oppressive status quo.

* [[NaughtyNun Naughty Nun]]: [[PlayedForDrama Played for Drama]]. Jeanne can gradually fall in love with Sir Brante and eventually make love with him. However, doing so fills her with guilt and shame that can break their romance unless Sir Brante comforts and supports her.

* [[StrangledByTheRedString Strangled by the Red String]]: Zigzagged. Jeanne is the only [[LoveInterest Love Interest]] in the game who's gonna have hots for (and have sex with) Sir Brante regardless of his own choices or their previous relationships. However, if there was no sincere sympathy between them before the sex scene, Sir Brante will have no choice but to push Jeanne further away. So, they are bound to become lovers, but they are certainly not bound to remain together afterwards.

[[folder: Jeramiah Haag]]

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: He disappears from the story after Sir Brante graduates from the seminary and accepts the Priest's Lot.

[[folder: Patriarch Fotis]]

[[folder: Father Lennart]]

[[folder: Ignasis Avertini]]

[[folder: Father Mark]]

[[folder: Father Ulrich]]

* AGodAmI: In his triumphant endings, he claims to be the Twins made flesh. [[BoltOfDivineRetribution They disagree with him.]]

[[folder: Patriarch Cassius]]

[[folder: Father Fuad]]

[[folder: Alida Sirin]]

* TenMinuteRetirement: If the revolt wins with Sir Brante as the leader then Tommas brings his family back to the city and joins the new regime's military, becoming the Captain of the city guard.

[[folder: The Twins]]

[[folder: The Shadow]]

* [[AntiClimaxBoss Anti-Climax Boss]]: If Sir Brante refuses to become his disciple, Ulrich never bothers him again. He is then investigated offscreen by Jeanne and taken out in a scene where Sir Brante doesn't even have to do anything. Most embarassingly, Ulrich's glorified [[MindManipulation Mind Manipulation]] only allows him to run away and go into hiding, never even attempting to put up a fight.
* [[DroppedABridgeOnHim Dropped a Bridge on Him]]: Part of Ulrich's [[AntiClimaxBoss Anti-Climax Boss]] qualities. If any side wins decisively in the Revolt with Sir Brante as the leader, this super-powerful evil sorcerer is unceremoniously captured and executed in the epilogue, his Willist powers apparently not doing him any good.

** If Sir Brante sentences Otton to True Death then he's executed by his own soldiers, whose brothers-in-arms he murdered for his amusement. Dorius is [[HangingAround dragged the to gallows like a commoner]] and he dies bewildered, unable to comprehend how this is happening to him.
** If Sir Brante slays Otton in a DuelToTheDeath then he bleeds out on the pavement, forced to face the fact that he was killed not only by a human but one he especailly despised. His last words are to curse all humans.

* EvilFormerFriend: Happens in the Priest and Noble Paths if you if you were kind to her in adolescence but don't rally support for her in the revolt. This girl who you used to make laugh and whose life you saved twice at great personal risk sees you as only another oppressor to be killed.

* ReassignedToAntarctica: It's implied that Gaius's appointment as Overseer is the result of the traditionalists in the Imperial court scheming to keep him from influencing his brother to implement further reforms. Additionally, the Milanidas family is upset is upset that he's "stolen" a position that has been in their family for generations and ends of spending most of his time and resources in the Peace chapter dealing with their interference.